Is the American Labor Movement Dying? All Signs Point to Yes.
Joe Biden likes to talk about how “unions built this country.” And, up to a point, he’s right. From FDR to Nixon, the American labor movement held considerable sway over…
Biden’s Infrastructure Plan a Boon for Unions
President Joe Biden’s multitrillion-dollar infrastructure proposal includes a major union handout that would overhaul labor law in the United States. The White House released a fact sheet Wednesday detailing Biden’s…
PRO? Con
The Biden administration is committed to applying the freshest thinking of the 1930s to contemporary challenges, while congressional Democrats are keen on mandating that all 50 states adopt what is worst…
Rand Paul Bill Seeks Choice for America’s Workers
In early February congressional Democrats launched an effort to allow unions to implant themselves once again into the lives of workers – whether they’re wanted there or not. The PRO…
Unions Must Stop Prioritizing Politics Over Jobs
At their peak, unions represented more than a third of American workers. Now, after several decades of continuing decline, less than 10% of workers in the private sector are part…
Union Corruption Hurts Everyone. But It Harms the Most Vulnerable the Most.
This past year was one of the most tumultuous in memory. Widespread economic collapse, social and societal upheaval, violent riots, an acrimonious election cycle, and a worldwide pandemic are just…
Workers’rights in the 21st century: Unions and Conscious Capitalism
My first experience with a union came when I represented the newsroom’s intention to hold a vote for a union to the publisher of a national weekly newspaper. I had…
The Hard Truth about Remote Learning This Fall
The kitchen table will once again serve as a makeshift desk for millions of students when they head “back to school” in the next few weeks. Seventeen of the nation’s 20…
Democrats’ Big Labor Agenda
Writing about legislation often feels pointless under divided government, because no partisan bill is going to become law anyway. So it is with the Protecting the Right to Organize (PRO) Act,…
After the Supreme Court Said Unions Can’t Force Non-Members to Pay Dues, Almost All of Them Stopped
By Eric Boehm • Reason Given the choice of no longer paying to support unions they didn’t want to join in the first place, lots of public sector workers took…
6 Big Changes Coming To Public Schools And Politics Thanks To The Supreme Court’s Union Smashdown
By Joy Pullman • The Federalist Thanks to the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision in Janus v. AFSCME that people cannot be forced to pay unions they don’t want to join,…
Government Workers ‘Free at Last’
By Betsy McCaughey • Real Clear Politics Rank and file government workers won big over union bosses Wednesday, when the U.S. Supreme Court ruled 5-4 in favor of Mark Janus,…
Supreme Court Should End Unions’ Stranglehold On State, Local Workers
Investor’s Business Daily Big Labor: The case of Janus v. AFSCME, now before the Supreme Court, pits an Illinois state employee against a giant government employees’ union in a fight…
Unions Appeal Right to Work in Kentucky
By Bill McMorris • Washington Free Beacon The unions behind a failed challenge to Kentucky’s right-to-work law are appealing a state judge’s ruling on its constitutionality. Teamsters Local 89 and…
The Death Knell for Unions? Supreme Court Gets to Decide
By Steve Kurtz • Fox News A $45 monthly fee could end up costing big labor billions. Public unions are getting nervous, while those who don’t like how they operate…